(8 quotes found)
“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.”
Andrew Wyeth
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.”
“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.”
“If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.”
“I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.”
“I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it ... I always want to see the third dimension of something ... I want to come alive with the object.”
“To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.”
“Her husband, he's German you know. When her husband came to me, I said, 'John, you don't mind me painting your wife.' And he said, 'No, that's fine, just don't paint her nude.”
